Kevin Kline was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

== Plot =

Soapdish was produced by Sally Field's then husband Alan Greisman. Field stars as Celeste Talbert, the long-time star of a popular daytime drama The Sun Also Sets. Her pal is the show's writer Rose Schwartz, played by Whoopi Goldberg. The show's producer, David Seaton Barnes, is played by Robert Downey, Jr. Supporting player and bombshell Montana Moorehead (Cathy Moriarty) connives to replace Celeste Talbert as the lead. Toward that end, she promises sexual favors to the producer. Meanwhile, twenty years before, Talbert had a falling out with fellow actor and boy...